Blue Collar Support
Following Sen. Barack Obama’s recent thumping in Democratic primary states that have large working-class or rural white voting populations, political analysts question whether those voters will support him in a general election. Sen. Hillary Clinton has highlighted this gap in support in addition to pointing out how important she believes these voting populations will be if a Democrat is to take back the White House this fall. Some pundits have repeatedly asked: Could their reluctance to vote for Obama be a “black thing?â€